Christensen Agate Marble Seams

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Christensen agate marble seams. The guinea pattern is a tiger stripe featuring three or more colors. Israel set up their fledgling company in anmoore west virginia and began producing marbles almost immediately perhaps first from an akro. It is one of the most prized vintage marbles on the collector market. The common name for the brick derives from the fact that the marble looks like a piece of brick when it is scuffed up.

The pattern meets at two opposing seams and forms the highly sought after diaper fold pattern seen in the third picture. Moulton and later clinton f. Agate christensen glass single swirl cac rare oxblood antique marble seam swirl rare glass single antique christensen oxblood marble cac seam agate 249 50 view by price under 44 under 101 under 211 under 348 under 513 under 931 under 1006 under 1803 under 2774 under 4559 listings ordering product matching almost. The marble is a combination of oxblood red and either opaque white opaque black or both.

Seamed examples are known as striped opaques or striped transparents. There is very little known about the techniques the company actually used to produce marbles so it is unclear if different machinery produced each type of marble some christensen agate marbles are hand gathered. Greatly reduced prices for marbles with id numbers marked in green yellow. Christensen agate marble extremely htf cyclone marble 0 629.

Click on the image of your favorite for an enlarged view and detailed description. Vintage christensen agate cac electric orange transparent marble 4 0. Christensen american agate red swirl marble cac single seam nm 11 16 17 99. It was called the american cornelian by the company.

The master marble company formed in 1930 following the departure of several key employees from akro agate. On exception is called a diaper fold in these there will be a single seam and this will form an indention into the marble into which the swirls extend. Vintage christensen agate cac. These former employees john f.

One last note about christensen agate swirls is their lack of seams. Christensen son company marble is the brick. Christensen agate marbles can exhibit either two seams on opposite sides of the marble a single seam e g a diaper fold or no seam. The christensen agate company was only in business for a couple of years and didn t produce all that many marbles to begin with but their patterns were distinctive and their colors fabulous making them some of the most.

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